To detect an intended subject having a variation of an arbitrary range out of freely photographed images with very few omissions of detection and erroneous detections.
A subject identification apparatus 10 is composed of an image input 11 and an integrating discriminator 12. The integrating discriminator 12 comprises a plurality of discriminators 1-N and a discrimination result integrating part 13, and is set by an output from a subject discriminator setting device 20. The subject discriminator setting device 20 is composed of an image data accumulator 21, a discriminator specification information input 22, a discriminator specification table 23, and an integrating discriminator setting part 24. The image data accumulator 21 accumulates subjects to be detected. The discriminator specification information input 22 inputs the discriminator specification information, and rewrites the discriminator specification table 23 based on the information. The integrating discriminator setting part 24 sets the integrating discriminator 12 that discriminates the intended subject based on the discriminator specification table 23.
SUDO KYOKO
TAKAHASHI HIROKO
ARAKAWA KENICHI
Uzawa Hidehisa